AGUMAA KIAZIM KARAMANOVICH
01.05.1915 — 08.12.1950
He was born on 1 May 1915 in the village of Gvada, Ochamchira district, Abkhazian SSR.
From 1927 to 1929 he studied in a primary school in the village of Guada and in a rural incomplete secondary school in the village of Jgerda.
In 1929-1932 he studied at the Sukhumi Pedagogical Technical School.
In 1932-1934 he was a student at the Moscow Institute of Journalism.
In 1937 he graduated from the History Department of the Kalinin Pedagogical Institute.
He returned to Abkhazia and worked as a teacher at Tkuarchal secondary school.
From 1938 he was an editorial staff member of the newspaper Apsny Kapsh (Red Abkhazia).
In 1940 he was drafted into the army and participated in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
He was seriously wounded. In 1944, due to deteriorating health, he was sent to Abkhazia. In Sukhum he worked in the Art Committee, the Union of Writers of Abkhazia, then in the editorial office of the newspaper Apsny Kapsh. Died of wounds.
Published since 1933.
In 1934 a selection of his poems was published in the collective collection of young poets ‘First Steps’.
His poems were printed in:
- «The Literary Journal»;
- newspaper «Apsny kapsh»;
- magazine «Alashara» («The light») и др.
The author of the poems:
- «The soldier's grave»;
- «The letter to Sukhum»;
- Ballads «Achyrpyn»;
- Narratives «The prisoner»;
The author of the tales:
- «Mother's love»;
- «The unshed tears»,
- «The stories of a lifetime»,
Plays «The Great Land» и др.
К. Agumaa translated into Abkhazian a number of poems from Russian, Ukrainian and Georgian classics, including A. S. S. K. Agumaa. С. Pushkin, T. G. Shevchenko, N. Baratashvili and others; fragments of the Armenian heroic epic ‘David of Sasun’. In addition, he is the author of articles and reviews on the problems of national literature and art.